In and of the Wreck: Together in a Sudden Strangeness
In its imagery and mood, the collection feels distinctly April.
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...moreWe are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...more“At the limit of language we meet our mortality.”
...morePoet and essayist Jennifer S. Cheng discusses her collection House A, working “in the dark,” and the idea of home.
...moreEileen Myles on recording her new poetry record Aloha/irish trees, the relationship between poetry and comedy, and finding safety in social media.
...moreTuesday 1/24: Check out this month’s installment of the Queer Voices Reading Series at Intermedia Arts. Featured readers include Anya Johanna DeNiro, Roy G. Guzmán, Dua Saleh, and Nghiem Tran. 7:30 p.m., free. At Amsterdam Bar and Hall, author Jim Walsh will read from his new book Gold Experience: Following Prince in the ’90s. A […]
...moreDavid Rivard discusses his new collection Standoff, writing as both a public and private act, the interiority of reading, and Pokémon GO.
...moreIn the latest “The Last Book I Loved,” S. Hope Mills tackles the thriller-esque 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House. Shirley Jackson’s talents are strong enough to spook even the avowedly un-spookable—that woman, Mills admits, “knew what it meant to be haunted.” And Heather Partington reviews Maude Casey’s novel inspired by the true story of a 19th century […]
...moreCynthia Cruz reviews Fanny Howe’s Second Childhood today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreWe are all students of memory. Each of us has our own truth to tell.
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